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How are you guys changing presets etc for different songs, live, in Loopy Pro?
I'm trying to make a practical setup for live stuff, one-man band sorta deal.
Drums, bass, pads, synths, keys etc all through Loopy Pro.. same with my acoustic guitar + mic.
I'm setting it up so everything works how I want, but it just entered my mind, what happens when I change songs?
Nobody will want to wait around while I fumble through a variety of synth apps or whatever and presets etc..
How are you guys going about quick song changes?
Do I create a whole new Loopy Pro template for each different song? Will it remember the presets for the apps that are in it?
I understand these threads are annoying but I do have to ask them and think these things out before I can really take a venues money for the gigs. I'm already an actively gigging musician (solo acoustic - no loops, no pedals.. just voice and a guitar), and I will be taking the iPad and LP to gigs.
Not every song warrants the same exact sounds though.
For some reason, it feels weird to approach it the same way as an acoustic guitar.. with that, I've got no problem playing the same guitar for 4hrs straight and singing.
But with drums, bass, synths, keys etc.. I don't want to always be using the same sounds, and I also don't want to be wasting time looking through them either.
Perhaps an option is to just have some buttons set up in LP for quick switches to different types of pads or leads.. so I could maybe have 2-3 choices per instrument, that I switch between at will at gigs..
If there's a better way to change song patches or whatever live at gigs, I'd love to hear it.
Gotta keep in mind the live aspect, I'm not being paid to sit there and look through presets or mess around with things. Needs to be very quick and intuitive, something I can do on the fly - no menu diving.
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Is it possible to route AUM into different tracks or instruments etc on Loopy Pro?
So I could have 1 single template for Loopy Pro that I use all gig.
And I just change "songs" on AUM - where it will automatically change presets etc that I choose per song, and retain the routing to LP?
IOW, I would just be using AUM to switch between presets or AUv3s in the background - but LP would be set up to always remain the same, the bass loop will always be the bass loop etc etc.. basically using AUM as a song patch app of sorts?
There are a few options available - you can have a totally different project for each song, and you can switch between them in a set list, with a MIDI control, including with a smooth crossfade, or preserving any effect tails, on the beat or immediate.
Or, you can do it all in the one project, and make a control to switch through presets. A stepped dial or a radio widget is good for that - put actions to apply all your presets/etc for each step. You can then bind a button to step forwards through those.
Yeah, you could do that, using LP as an AUV3 within AUM, but if you're just using AUM to switch settings, that seems unnecessary given that you can do all that in LP
Sure, why not? But the term I think you're looking for is project, not template. A template is a special kind of project that you can create new songs (projects) from.
Yes, projects do save everything about themselves. All settings, clips, apps, and their current state are saved with the project. Loopy Pro has great features for seamlessly transitioning between projects.
Templates do too, but think of them as a starting point for new songs. For instance, I have templates that have all the empty loops, widgets, midi bindings, and apps I want to start a new song. I start the song from a template, then save it as a project (song).
Not annoying at all. And useful for others starting out.
Hopefully by now it's plain that they don't need to.
You can do it that way if it fits your style better, but you don't need to.
Yes, but I can't fathom why you would do that in AUM when you can do the exact same thing in Loopy Pro, as well as take advantage of its excellent song transition features.
There isn't anything AUM can do for you in this regard that Loopy Pro can't and a BIG benefit of Loopy Pro is that if you mute instruments you aren't actively playing, Loopy frees up the CPU load from it until you unmute it. You can have many synths loaded and ready to use but muted and just unmute them as needed.
Regarding Templates vs. Projects (assume "song" when I say "project"): One way you could make use of Templates is by creating empty songs with the types of sounds you want for different scenarios. Maybe "Rock Ballad", "Jazz Standard", "Hard Blues", etc.
You can then launch a new project from the appropriate template and flesh it out with any backing clips, the tempo, app presets, etc specific to that song. Or maybe you don't need to go that far. Maybe you prefer to start from just a template and a blank slate on the stage. If your template is saved without a tempo, you can simply start playing and let the first loop set the project tempo and take it from there.
Some people prefer to stick within one Loopy Pro session and set up pages, widgets, etc. to focus on what they want. That approach is not for me. It always feels like it gets far more complicated than something I would ever want to rely on live.
@greatestlengths , I think learning about how to send program changes via MID might benefit you. This can be accomplished by utilizing widgets, as Michael already suggested. This way you don’t have to load different projects. It’s instantaneous. But I believe there is one of two, maybe ways for each synth, drum. et to handle this information, or if it supports it at all. You need to look at each instrument midi specs.
If your instruments support this, then there is no need to change projects during a gig, unless you feel the interface is getting crowded with too many donuts. But there are other ways around that. You will get your different instruments patches, just no tempo changes, but I assume you’d rather tap tempo to change it, being you’re a live instrumentalist?
I don’t perform acoustically, I’m just thinking aloud, so forgive me if I’m overlooking something obvious.
If they are using presets in AUv3, no midi us needed to change presets. Loopy Pro lets you save presets and switch them with the select preset action. I use stepped dials where each step selects presets of multiple instruments and effects at once and even mutes/unmutes channels and sets levels as needed.
That is so [sic] sick! For me, opening Loopy Pro is like a perpetual Christmas Eve. I keep reading about the awesome updates, but am always behind with exploring them, because Loopy Pro has already been so awesome and useful for me. But constantly having unexplored features always has me looking forward to getting some alone time with LP.
The second option is what I want, but with quick access to changing the sounds for everything.
Bare minimum is drums, bass, pads, keys, lead synths via a single Akai mpk mini play mk3 and/or a Native Instruments s88 mk2, plus vocals and guitar.
Eventual will want an octaver so I can play the bass lines on guitar and I will add an electric guitar at some point so I will want FX for that too. I will need to set up fx for the acoustic and vocals too, ie delay, reverb, some chorus for the ac guitar..
Baby steps first as I’m learning the program. Just trying to get a functional, gig ready basic template or project made that let’s me quickly change sounds on the fly or between songs without having to put the punters through waiting for me to open up each auv3 and choose the sound I want in them one by one, that’s completely unacceptable to me.
I should have first started creating a basic solo acoustic looper project, with dedicated loops and fx for percussion and rhythm and lead sounds etc before diving into what I’m trying to do because that’s something will be gigging as well, more often than not at the same gigs.. but it lets me just turn up and do the acoustic looper thing sometimes without necessarily also bringing the Akai and doing keys, drums, etc etc..